Lille Kvartet-Set of parts for Ribe Tidlig Morgen (Lille Kvartet) (1949) BVN 386 by Rued Langgaard. For 2 Trumpets Trombone and Tuba. Score: WH32519

. . . a world of shimmering sounds and unusual moves. That world has a chaotic surface yet there is an undeniable internal coherence and drama that engages the attention and the imagination. . . Mr Harvey's work with its otherworldly textures seduces the listener.James R Oestreich The New York Times 23 April 1991.

2nd Movement of portraits of the North-Land of the Midnight Sun is a cinematic musical journey depicting the awe-inspiring expanse of the far north and the raw beauty of this magnificent panorama. The piece opens with the breaking of the ice and the warming ofthe land. Featuring alyrical trumpet or flugelhorn solo a rich and reverent brass chorale and a luminescent woodwind choir the music ebbs and flows and builds to a celebration of light. Full of lush colors and sweepingmelodies this will give any ensemble anopportunity to soar! Dur: 6:00

This work was commissioned by the Naxos Recording Company and is the eighth in a series of ten quartets. It was first performed on 10th March 2006 by the Maggini Quartet at St. Gregory’s Centre Canterbury Christ ChurchUniversity Canterbury as part of the Sounds New Festival.Naxos Quartet No. 8 is dedicated to Her Majesty the Queen on her 80th birthday.

Fanfarer-Danmarks Radio for Orchestra BVN 351 was composed by Rued Langgaard in 1948. Instrumentation: 3.2.2.2/4.3.3.1/timp/2 perc/org/str. Parts are available on hire: hire@ewh.dk This extremely short orchestral piece was composed 7 May1948 in Ribe. Exactly between 5:45 and 6:45 in the morning(“normal time”). Rued Langgaard indicates the time of dayin both the sketch for the composition and the fair copy of thescore. Fair-copying of the score took place on 10 May 4:30 to6:00 in the morning (“summertime”) after it should be noted Langgaard had taken his obligatory morning constitutional inRibe (he suffered from insomnia and arose in the early morninghours). After the work’s final measure Langgaard wrote:“Short razor-sharp line of thought in music excluding allextraneous ‘developmental’ fussiness and with lightning fastmovement in all the parts”. The same day 10 May he sent thescore as program suggestion to the State Broadcasting Servicein Copenhagen under the title Denmark’s Radio Fandfare forGrand Orchestra – “fandfare” as a sarcastically meant spellingmistake with an allusion to “the Devil” (fanden = the Devil inDanish). Langgaard had as is known an ambivalent relationshipwith the State Broadcasting Service. The work was not acceptedand the score was therefore returned to Langgaard whonevertheless submitted it again. The State Broadcasting Serviceclearly regarded the piece as a joke from the composer’s side.When Langgaard died in 1952 the unperformed score was tobe found in broadcasting corporation’s music

The Star in the East. Instrumentation: Soprano Solo + symphony orchestra. BVN180

Martin Cooper writes 'The concerto has a dashing first movement marked by jazz memories and a lento whose wistful melancholy also suggests the sentimental lyrical style of the 1930s. The leap from this to the crude whooping and the stomping rhythms of the finale was irresistible. . .'Daily Telegraph 12 October 1976

Palmblätter. Instrumentation: Soli/childrens choir/2.1.2.2/2.3.2.1/timp/perc/str (minus db). BVN137

Jephta. Instrumentation: BBar solo recitation mixed choir 0.0.0.0/2.0.0.0/timp/str. BVN346

Musik til 'En Digters Drøm' - Skuespil i 15 Billeder af Julius Magnussen (1925) BVN 181. Instrumentation: 3.2.2.2/4.3.3.1/timp/2 perc/arpa/archi. Parts are available on hire: hire@ewh.dk

A symphony in one movement composed by Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) in 1924. The work lasts approximately 22 minutes.